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	Commonwealth Yearbook Home
		Christmas Island lies in the Indian Ocean, south of Java and 2,600km north-west of Perth.
		The Abbott's booby and Christmas Island frigatebird are endangered.
		Christmas Island is an Australian territory, the administration of which is the responsibility of the minister for regional development, territories and local government.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/YearbookInternal.asp?NodeID=140406 (652 words)

	Worldworx Travel - Regional Information - Australasia and Oceania - Oceania - Christmas Island
		Christmas Island is located in the Indian Ocean, south of the Indonesian island of Java and is considered a territory of Australia.
		Christmas Island is tiny and has a total land area of just 135 sq km and a coastline measuring 80km.
		Christmas Island was named after the day of the year on which it was discovered in 1643.
	www.worldworx.tv /regional-information/australasia-oceania/oceania/christmas-island (384 words)

	Christmas Island Frigatebird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Christmas Island frigatebird (Fregata andrewsi) is a frigatebird endemic to the Christmas Islands in the Indian Ocean.
		Like other frigatebirds, this species does not walk or swim, but is a very aerial bird which obtains its food by picking up live prey items from beaches or the water surface, and the aerial piracy of other birds.
		It is estimated that the population of this species will decline by 8 percent in the next 30 years due to predation of the young by the introduced yellow crazy ants species (Anoplolepis gracilipes), which have devastated the wildlife of the island, and have also killed 10–20 million Christmas Island red crabs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_Island_Frigatebird (191 words)

	National Mapping - Fab Facts, Dimensions, External Territories, Christmas Island
		Christmas Island is famous for red crabs and their migration across the island, which often causes havoc with the residents by blocking roads.This abundance of land crabs is not matched by any other island and has been described as one of the wonders of the natural world.
		Christmas island is the summit of a submarine mountain, which rises steeply to a central plateau.
		Christmas Island is surrounded by a narrow tropical reef which plunges steeply to the ocean floor.
	www.ga.gov.au /education/facts/dimensions/externalterr/christma.htm (389 words)

	ESPN Outdoors -- Angling Abroad: Christmas Island flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		One of the advantages of Christmas Island for novices is that the abundance of bonefish allow for many mistakes to be made in the learning process, and you still catch fish.
		Christmas Island is Earth's largest coral atoll, 30 miles long with 250 square miles of lagoons, white sand and the rusted relics of British and American occupation.
		Christmas Island, known as Kiritimati to the locals, is part of the Republic of Kiribati, which became independent of Britain in 1979.
	espn.go.com /outdoors/flyfishing/s/ff_fea_Xmas_island_Becher.html (2036 words)

	Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Island is the summit of a submarine mountain.
		Christmas Island was occupied by Japanese forces from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War and in 1946 became a dependency of Singapore.
		Christmas Island has been chosen as the site for the satellite launching facility because its proximity to the equator enables launch vehicles to lift heavier payloads at no extra cost in comparison with locations further from the equator.
	www.dotrs.gov.au /terr/xmas (1369 words)

	Frontiers International Travel - Fly Fishing, Bird Shooting, Elegant Journeys, African Safaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Putting Christmas Island to words is a bit like catching the proverbial moonbeam in a bottle -- it's difficult to do justice to the island's magnificent fishery and to capture the kaleidoscope of experiences.
		Christmas Island offers what is perhaps the best bonefishing in the world, with vast numbers of fish - and some very big ones - on easily waded, clean, hard, white sand flats.
		Christmas Island is still one of the best values for quality bonefishing in the world.
	www.frontierstravel.com /SportingDestination.cfm?DestinationID=34 (656 words)

	Noonsite: Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Christmas Island is an Australian territory lying in the Indian Ocean 260 miles south of the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java.
		The island is the tip of an extinct volcano, about 985 ft (300 m) above sea level, and the cliffs are almost continuous around its coast.
		Christmas Island is a favourite port of call for yachts on passage to the Cocos Keeling Islands, another Australian dependency in the Indian Ocean.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/ChristmasIsland (253 words)

	Leon Redbone -Christmas Island - Rounder Records - CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		These days, it seems most Christmas albums are released by folks you wouldn’t be caught dead buying a regular album from, much less one festooned with mistletoe and candy canes.
		Christmas Island, a 1989 release from Leon Redbone recently reissued by Rounder Records, is a happy exception to this rule.
		As with most Christmas albums since the dawn of recorded music, most of Christmas Island’s relatively brief running time is composed of holiday standards.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/RedboneLeonChristmasIslandCD.html (744 words)

	Christmas Island Home Page
		Christmas Island is located in the Indian Ocean at 10 ° 25'S and 105 ° 40'E. It is approximately 2800 km west of Darwin, 2600 km north-west of Perth, and 360 km south of the western head of Java.
		Christmas Island supports a wide range of unique and unusual species and habitats, and although it has been mined for phosphates for much of the past century, most of the natural ecosystem remains intact.
		The declaration of the Christmas Island National Park in 1980, and extensions in 1986 and 1989, placed over sixty percent of the Island under formal protection.
	www.deh.gov.au /parks/christmas (230 words)

	Island Life - Christmas Island
		Christmas Island is an Australian-owned territory, yet it lies closer to the Indonesian island of Java.
		Christmas Island is internationally famous for the spectacular annual migration of sixty million red land crabs, from the forest to the ocean to mate and spawn.
		As the red crabs make their epic journey from the rain forest on the top plateau of the island, down through areas of human settlement, across roads where they dodge huge phosphate carrying trucks, the film will introduce the audience to the surreal situations which occur when humans share an island with millions of crabs.
	www.abc.net.au /nature/island/ep2 (252 words)

	CHRISTMAS ISLAND
		Christmas Island is a beautiful island about 2300km north west of Perth, which has a predominant Asian and Oriental culture and makes up part of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories.
		Over half of the island is covered by the tropical forests of the National Park, with pretty beaches and rock pools covering the islands coastline.
		If you are on the island around Christmas, you may be lucky enough to see the Red Crabs on their breeding migration back to the sea.
	www.australianexplorer.com /christmas_island.htm (338 words)

	Dive Christmas Kiribati Island South Pacific: Scuba Holiday South Pacific Vacation Christmas Island - Dive Kiribati ...
		Christmas Island has the largest land area of any coral atoll in the world (140 square miles) and is only 119 miles north of the equator.
		No fighting occurred on Christmas Island during World War II; however, it was a staging area for the Pacific theater, and the roads and airfield created for these purposes are quite extensive.
		The birdlife on Christmas Island is prolific with the seabird populations nesting on the island including some of the largest and most impressive colonies in the Pacific.
	www.diveguide.com /p2782.htm (486 words)

	Christmas Island History
		Kiritimati, as Christmas Island is spelled by the locals ("ti" is pronounced "s" in Kiribati), is the largest Atoll in the Pacific at 222 square miles.
		The island is part of the Republic of Kiribati (kir-i-bas) which consists of 33 islands scattered across 2,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
		Over the years since it's discovery in 1777, Christmas Island has also claimed numerous ships including this Korean ship (pictured to the left) which is still visible today on the flats at the southeast end of the atoll.
	www.fishdive.com /christmas/xmashistory.htm (419 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 157 - Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Christmas Island is located in the Indian Ocean 2623 kilometres north-west of Perth.
		The island became an Australian Territory on 1 October 1958 with the proclamation of the Christmas Island Act 1958–59.
		Phosphate mining on the island commenced in 1897 with the formation of the Christmas Island Phosphate Co. Ltd.
	naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS157.html (564 words)

	Christmas Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The highest point on the island is Murray Hill, rising to 1,184 feet (361 m) above sea level in the western part of the island.
		island in the Indian Ocean, about 224 miles (360 km) south of the island of Java and 870 miles (1,400 km) northwest of Australia; it is administered as an external territory of Australia.
		Barrow Island is characterized by its aridity and by...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9082434 (769 words)

	Christmas (Kiritimati) Island
		Christmas Island is one of the many interesting islands in the Republic of Kiribati.
		Part of the Line Island Group, it is the largest coral atoll in the world with an area of 248 square miles of which 125 square miles is land and remainder lagoon.
		Christmas Island is the largest coral atoll in the world with an area of 248 square miles of which 125 square miles is land and the remainder lagoon.
	www.janeresture.com /christmas (802 words)

	CVC's Christmas on Christmas Island, Guam, Micronesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		On the 25th of December, Christmas Day, in 1643, an island off the coast of Australia was discovered and because of this, the island was appropriately named Christmas Island by Captain William Mynors.
		As is typical of tropical islands that maintain large old groves of coconut palms, visitors to Christmas Island are always impressed by the enormous land crabs that guard every road and pathway.
		This unusual tropical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, some 1300 miles south of Hawaii, is part of the Republic of Kiribati, known previously as the Gilbert Islands.
	www.cvc.org /christmas/micronesia.htm (1138 words)

	Christmas Island Fauna
		The terrestrial fauna of Christmas Island is dominated by land crabs and in particular by the red land crab Geocarcoidea natalis.
		The red crab occurs only on Christmas Island (and sporadically on North Keeling Island), and Jackson's crab may also be endemic as it has not been recorded elsewhere.
		The Christmas Island pipistrelle (Murray's pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus murrayi), which is an endemic small insectivorous bat, was previously common and widespread on the Island.
	www.deh.gov.au /parks/christmas/fauna (714 words)

	Birds of Christmas Island
		The island is large enough to have developed its own unique rainforest ecology, with seven of the 13 land birds being endemic to the island, including the inquisitive Christmas Island Thrush, whose melodious evening song lends a wonderful musical quality to the tropical, palm-fringed sunsets.
		The Brown Noddy is a common tropical seabird nesting on the seacliffs and shore terrace trees, though not as common as the Red-footed Booby on Christmas Island.
		Christmas Island is also host to many visiting and vagrant birds as well as a few introduced species.
	www.christmas.net.au /parks/birds/birds_of_christmas_island.htm (970 words)

	Christmas Island
		In 1990, the 375th anniversary of the first sighting of the Christmas Island was celebrated by releasing two commemorative stamps.
		He named it "Christmas Island" as the day of this second sighting fell on December 25, 1643.
		Christmas Island is situated in the Indian Ocean.
	www.angelfire.com /ms/stamp/country/chrisland.html (220 words)

	Whaleshark Diving - Sports Fishing Charter - Bird Watching Tour - Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		As well as the chance to dive with a whaleshark, Christmas Island is surrounded by a narrow tropical reef, making it the perfect destination for scuba diving trips.
		63% of the island's 135 square kilometres is national park and the island's close proximity to South East Asia and the equator has resulted in a diverse range of bird species.
		Christmas Island is becoming known as an international fishing destination.
	www.christmas.net.au (472 words)

	CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
		Christmas Island is truly one of the world's last undiscovered pleasures.
		He arrived at the island on Christmas Day, 1643, but was unable to land.
		The island was annexed by the British in the late 19th Century, and was used as a phosphate mine.
	www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=133 (281 words)

	Christmas Island Bomb Tests
		Christmas Island was now being envisaged as a transit base for the Far East and R.A.F. Transport Command took over.
		In Britain, too, strategic imperatives were changing and the Christmas Island base was an early casualty of the withdrawal of British Forces from the Pacific theatre.
		In 1975 a further examination of Christmas Island was undertaken by American experts as part of the preparation for the establishment of a Japanese tracking station.
	www.janeresture.com /christmas_bombs (2172 words)

	Ausflag - Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Christmas Island is an external Australian Territory in the Indian Ocean, 1700 km northwest of Western Australia.
		The Christmas Island Assembly held a design competition for an island flag and coat of arms in early 1986.
		In the centre of the flag is a gold disc, which has come to represent the island's phosphate mining history although it was originally included only for aesthetic reasons to provide a background for the green map of Christmas Island.
	www.ausflag.com.au /flags/ci.html (359 words)

	Christmas Island
		Christmas Island is the largest natural atoll in the world---the road that circumnavigates the atoll is 60 miles long.
		The best of many great features about Christmas Island is that this is THE place to learn how to bonefish.
		There are certain places where bigger bonefish can be caught (the majority of Christmas island Bonefish are less than 4 pounds), but this is the place to get both a first lesson and an advanced degree in how to fool this great trophy fish.
	www.outdoors.net /lefty/lefty/library/2/ci.htm (306 words)

	Prince Edward Island: Island Christmas
		Christmas is a magical time of year here on the Island.
		The snow has begun to fall, homes are ablaze with the lights of the season, and, at schools and churches across the Island, children and adults alike are preparing for the many choirs, plays, and other events that will soon come to life.
		Christmas is celebrated in many different ways around the world (and even from community to community and family to family).
	www.gov.pe.ca /christmas (687 words)

	SPACE.com -- Australia Announces Christmas Island Spaceport
		Christmas Island, a speck of land of about 135 square km (52 sq miles) that lies off Australia's northwest coast, only makes news headlines when illegal immigrants arrive in rickety boats from Asia.
		Christmas Island is a summit of an undersea mountain covered by rainforest, with a peak 360 metres (1,181 feet) above sea level, and a coastline of towering sea cliffs.
		During the 1990s Christmas Island residents, which total around 1,200, have tried to develop fishing and tourism industries, with an annual march of thousands of red crabs across the island a spectacular tourist drawcard.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/launches/aussie_spaceport_wg_010625.html (807 words)

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